Building the Land of Dreams : : New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America / / Eberhard L. Faber.
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideolog...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Terminology
- Introduction: The City and the Nation
- 1. Mississippi Schemes: The Making of a Colonial Elite, 1717−1803
- 2. New Orleans, 1803: Infant City under the Gaze of Three Empires
- 3. The Passion of Citizen Laussat: New Orleans Is Ceded from Spain to France to the United States
- 4. Pathways to the Place d'Armes: The Generation of 1804
- 5. Quel Triste Gouvernement: The Early Crisis of American Rule, 1804
- 6. Liberty in Louisiana: Accomplishments and Compromises of American Rule, 1804−1805
- 7. Creoles and Americans: Confrontations and Accommodations, 1805−1807
- 8. A Strong Case of Wanton Oppression: Livingston, the Corporation, the President, and the Batture
- 9. 9 Creation of an Un-American Republic: Rebellion, Reaction, and the Anxious Road to Statehood
- 10. January 1815: Louisiana Is Still American
- Appendix 1. New Orleans Exports, 1804-1820
- Appendix 2. Parish Populations: White, Slave, and Free People of Color, 1810-1820
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index